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15-letter words containing c, i, b, o, l

  • business school — A business school is a school or college which teaches business subjects such as economics and management.
  • calcium blocker — any of a group of drugs that prevent the influx of calcium into excitable tissues such as smooth muscle of the heart or arterioles, used in the treatment of angina, hypertension, and certain arrhythmias.
  • call into being — to create
  • calydonian boar — a savage boar sent by Artemis to destroy Calydon, a city in Aetolia, because its king had neglected to sacrifice to her. It was killed by Meleager, the king's son
  • camelot library — (library)  
  • cannibalisation — Alternative form of cannibalization.
  • cannibalization — to subject to cannibalism.
  • carboxylic acid — any of a class of organic acids containing the carboxyl group
  • celestial globe — a spherical model of the celestial sphere showing the relative positions of stars, constellations, etc
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • chicken lobster — a young lobster weighing 1 pound (0.4 kg) or less.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • child abduction — the crime of removing a child from its rightful home
  • chronobiologist — A person who is involved in chronobiology.
  • cinderella book — (publication)   "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope. See also book titles.
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • claustrophobics — Plural form of claustrophobic.
  • climb indicator — an instrument that shows the rate of ascent or descent of an aircraft, operating on a differential pressure principle.
  • collaboratively — in the manner of working with others on a joint project
  • collecting bank — a bank that collects money from the account of the writer of a cheque on behalf of the person who has deposited the cheque into the bank
  • color blindness — inability to distinguish one or several chromatic colors, independent of the capacity for distinguishing light and shade.
  • combinatorially — in a combinatorial manner
  • combustibleness — The state or quality of being combustible.
  • commercial bank — a bank primarily concerned with accepting demand deposits, used as checking accounts
  • common-sensible — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.
  • communicability — capable of being easily communicated or transmitted: communicable information; a communicable disease.
  • communion table — (in a Christian church) the table at which people take communion
  • compatibilities — capable of existing or living together in harmony: the most compatible married couple I know.
  • compressibility — the ability to be compressed
  • conceivableness — The state or quality of being conceivable.
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • contemptibility — The quality of being contemptible.
  • contractability — (of a body or substance) the ability to become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc
  • contractibility — contractability
  • controllability — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • controller bias — In a control loop, the controller bias is a constant amount added to or subtracted from the action that a controller would normally take with a particular gain.
  • convertibleness — The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • copyright block — a block of four or more U.S. stamps that includes, in the selvage of the sheet, the copyright mark of the U.S. Postal Service.
  • corona borealis — a small compact constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Boötes and Hercules
  • corruptibleness — The state or quality of being corruptible.
  • corynebacterial — relating to bacteria of the genus Corynebacterium
  • council chamber — the room in which council meetings are held
  • countervailable — able to counteract or offset as equivalent
  • credit mobilier — a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
  • crude oil berth — A crude oil berth is a place at a port for ships carrying crude oil.
  • cyclobenzaprine — A particular antidepressant generally prescribed as an analgesic and muscle relaxant.
  • decarboxylation — the removal or loss of a carboxyl group from an organic compound
  • deception table — a table of the 18th century made so as to conceal its true function, as in serving as a cabinet for a chamber pot.
  • decomposability — (uncountable) The condition of being decomposable.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
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